In oil-rich non-democracies, the political leaders________.
A. exercise a great degree of political and commercial transparency to benefit and
augment oil exports
B. avoid sharing political information in order to maintain control over the vast wealth
that oil production generates
C. eliminate the role of trading in oil as an influencing factor in matters of national
political importance
D. adapt the laws of the government to the political climate of the countries to which
the oil is being exported
E. ensure that the wealth resulting from oil trade is distributed to the majority of
citizens and used to develop the economy
Question 2
Which of the following factors is believed to be the cause of the persistence of nondemocracy in the Arab world, according to the geopolitical perspective?
A. the fact that the Koran does not stipulate the separation of religion and politics
B. the fact that there are multiple schools of Islamic law with different notions
regarding democracy
C. the fact that female subordination characterizes a high proportion of women in the
Islamic countries
D. the fact that a primordial link exists between Islam and non-democracy
E. the fact that Western democracies prefer the non-democratic stability in the Arab
world as it ensures access to oil
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